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International Space Weather Initiative
TRAINING
2010 - 2014


during the 2014:
  1. The SCOSTEP/ISWI International School on Space Science September 15–24, 2014, Lima, Peru look completed for more: read the Final Report
during the 2013:
  1. First ISWI school of MAGHREB 06–16 May 2013, El Alia, Bab Ezzouar, Algeria look
    completed for more: read the Final Report
  2. International School for Young Astronomers (ISYA 2013) 26 Aug – 13 Sep 2013, Jatinangor, Indonesia look
  3. 2013 ISWI/SCOSTEP School Oct 21–Nov 01, 2013, Nairobi, Kenya (look)
    completed for more: read the Final Report
  4. 2013 MAGDAS School Sept 23-27, 2013, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire look
during the 2012:
  1. ISWI and MAGDAS School on Space Science, Bandung Indonesia, September 17-26, 2012 look
    completed for more: read the Final Report
  2. United States of America, Los Alamos, June 4 - July 27, 2012 look completed
during the 2011:
  1. Nigeria, Redeemer's University, Near Lagos, August 15-20, 2011 look
    completed for more: read the Final Report , go to SERC web-site (here) to find the book or lectures, also read ISWI Newsletter Vol.3 No.77
  2. Slovakia, High Tatras, August 21-27, 2011 look
    completed for more: (Presentations, Photo gallery) go to School web-site (here)
    Memories from High Tatras (two videos) enjoy
  3. Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC), Kinshasa , September 11-24, 2011 look
    completed for more read the Final Report
  4. Morocco, Rabat, December 5-16, 2011 look
    completed for more read the Final Report , also read ISWI Newsletters Vol.4 No.7 and Vol.4 No.10
during the 2010:
  1. Ethiopia, Bahir Dar, October 28-November 4, 2010 look

Notice was received on 15 August 2014
The School completed successfully
read the Final Report

The SCOSTEP/ISWI International School on Space Science
September 15–24, 2014, Lima, Peru

The SCOSTEP/ISWI International School on Space Science, which is sponsored by the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) and the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) will take place in Lima, Peru between September 15 to 24, 2014.

The school will be an excellent learning and enrichment opportunity for graduate students attending the "Tenth Latin American Conference on Space Geophysics" (X-COLAGE) Cusco, Peru, September 8 to 12, 2014.
(WEB-site of X-COLAGE)

Topics in X-COLAGE
  • The Sun and solar-terrestrial interactions
  • The heliosphere and cosmic rays
  • The magnetosphere
  • The ionosphere and upper atmosphere
  • Space weather and space climate
  • Plasma physics of solar system planets and exoplanets.
  • Nonlinear processes in space geophysics
SCHOOL DIRECTORS
Dr. Nat Gopalswamy (NASA, USA)
Dr. Marco Milla (IGP, Peru)
Dr. Abraham Chian (INPE, Brazil)
Deadlines Financial Assistance: May 23, 2014
Cost : 60$ (if not participate in X-COLAGE)

School's WEB site
School's E-mail: iswi.school.2014[at]jro.igp.gob.pe

Look at SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE

Monday Sep 8, 2014 – Inaugural Session

08:30–09:00 Introduction to the X COLAGE

09:00–10:00 Sami Solanki Perspectives in solar physics

Plenary Talk

Monday Sep 8, 2014
Session 1a: The Sun and solar-terrestrial interactions

10:30–10:50 Mark Miesch 3D Modeling of the Solar Dynamo

Oral

10:50–11:05 Marcelo López Fuentes Active regions twist from magnetic tongues and force-free coronal models

Oral

11:05–11:25 Eduard Kontar Solar Flare Models And Observations

Invited

11:25–11:40 Francisco Fernandes Radio signature of shock wave driven by solar flare without association with CME

Oral

11:40–11:55 María Victoria Gutierrez Escate Sympathetic Flares at SubTHz Frequencies

Oral

11:55–12:10 Jose Francisco Valdés Galicia Performance of the SciBar Cosmic Ray Telescope toward the detection of high energy solar neutrons in Solar Cycle 24

Oral

12:10–12:25 Luis Xavier González Simulation of the Solar Neutrons in the Earth’s Atmosphere

Oral

Monday Sep 8, 2014
Session 1b: The Sun and solar-terrestrial interactions

14:00–14:20 Alberto Marcos Vasquez Seeing The Solar Corona in Three Dimensions

Invited

14:20–14:40 Marilena Mierla The CMEs morphology and their low coronal origin

Invited

14:40–14:55 Shi Wu Formation, Eruption and Propagation of an Observed Active Region Sigmoid (Flux-Rope) as the Initiation of a CME using a Data-Driven Three-Dimensional Magneto-hydrodynamic Model

Oral

14:55–15:10 Hebe Cremades Coronal Mass Ejection Production from the 11121 and 11123 Active Region Cluster

Oral

15:10–15:25 Laura Balmaceda 3D reconstruction and propagation of deflected CMEs using ground- and space-based data

Oral

15:25–15:40 Heidy Gutiérrez Multispectral Study of Coronal Hole and the Associated Large Filament Eruption

Oral

15:40–15:55 Juan Americo Gonzalez Esparza Detection of Solar Wind Disturbances. MEXART IPS Observations

Oral

15:55–16:10 Julio Cesar Gianibelli Long Period Variations Of The Kinetic Energy Of The Solar Wind

Oral

Monday Sep 8, 2014
Session 3: The Magnetosphere

16:30–16:50 Anton Heinrich Bernhard Otto The Substorm growth phase: Current Sheet Thinning, Ionospheric Morphology, and Reconnection

Invited

16:50–17:10 Juan Alejandro Valdivia Thermally induced Magnetic fluctuations: can they be relevant in the magnetosphere

Invited

17:10–17:30 Ramón Lopez How the forces on the magneto-sheath flow control the dayside reconnection rate

Invited

17:30–17:45 Natalia Romanova Monitoring of the plasma density in the inner magnetosphere using the ground-based ULF wave measurements

Oral

Tuesday Sep 9, 2014 – Plenary Talk

08:30–09:30 Ronald F. Woodman 3D Geography of Peru


Tuesday Sep 9, 2014
Session 2a: The Heliosphere and Cosmic Rays

09:30–09:50 John Richardson Voyager Observations from the edge of the Heliosphere

Invited

09:50–10:10 Hernán Asorey The Latin American Giant Observatory (LAGO) Project

Invited

10:10–10:30 Joseph Borovsky Are the Solar-Wind Fluctuations Turbulence?

Invited

Tuesday Sep 9, 2014
Session 2b: The Heliosphere and Cosmic Rays

11:00–11:20 Hebe Cremades Space weather prediction tools based on low-frequency type II radio emissions

Invited

11:20–11:35 Nat Gopalswamy Interplanetary Consequences of Anomalous Expansion of CMEs during Solar Cycle 24

Oral

11:35–11:50 Julio Cesar Mejia-Ambriz Remote sensing of solar wind speeds by Interplanetary Scintillation using MEXART and STEL

Oral

11:50–12:05 Carlos Roberto Braga Study of interplanetary magnetic structures and its associated coronal mass ejections using cosmic ray observations from the Global Muon Detector Network and from coronagraphs SECCHI and LASCO (presented by Sergio Dasso)

Oral

12:05–12:20 Jimmy Joel Masiás Meza Linking Forbush decreases with Magnetic Clouds properties. A statistical study

Oral

12:20–12:35 Mauricio Suárez The rigidity cut-off calculation method for the sites of the LAGO project

Oral

12:35–12:50 Marco Barrantes Methods for differentiation of particles detected by the SciCRT

Oral

Tuesday Sep 9, 2014
Session 4a: The Ionosphere and the Upper Atmosphere

14:00–14:20 Cesar Valladares Observations of low- and mid-latitude TEC depletions & Scintillations

Invited

14:20–14:35 Marco A. Milla New capabilities of the Jicamarca radar and its cluster of instruments

Oral

14:35–14:50 Paulo Roberto Fagundes Ionosphere and the upper atmosphere coupling during SSW

Oral

14:50–15:05 Polinaya Muralikrishna Langmuir Probe observations of abnormal electron temperatures in the valley region below the F-layer and their association with the equatorial plasma bubbles

Oral

15:05–15:20 Claudia Candido Ionospheric response to solar minimum conditions

Oral

15:20–15:35 Danny Scipion Mesospheric winds obtained from simultaneous 30 MHz and 50 MHz All-Sky Specular Meteors at Jicamarca

Oral

Wednesday Sep 10, 2014
Session 4b: The Ionosphere and the Upper Atmosphere

08:30–09:30 Erhan Kudeki Tutorial on Incoherent and Coherent scatter radars

Invited

09:30–09:45 Paulo Batista Long-term temperature variation in the 35-65 km range at 230S from 1993 to 2014

Oral

09:45–10:00 Igo Paulino Observation of gravity waves in the OI630 nm airglow emission over Brazil

Oral

10:00–10:15 Lourivaldo Mota Lima Long-term Variations of Sporadic Meteor Parameters in the Low Latitude Southern Hemisphere

Oral

10:15–10:30 Ricardo Yvan de La Cruz Cueva Study Of Christmas Island Vhf Radar Spread F Observed During Low Solar Activity (2007 – 2010): Multiple Plumes

Oral

Wednesday Sep 10, 2014
Session 4c: The Ionosphere and the Upper Atmosphere

11:00–11:20 Sixto Gonzalez Aeronomy at the Arecibo Observatory

Invited

11:20–11:35 Edgardo Pacheco Longitudinal variability of low-latitude plasma density irregularities during low solar activity

Oral

11:35–11:50 Marcos Diaz Langmuir Decay Process: Enhancement of Ion Acoustic Line and first Langmuir harmonic in IS Radar Spectra

Oral

11:50–12:05 Rebeca López Montes Ionospheric disturbances associated with high energy solar events

Oral

12:05–12:20 Gustavo Adolfo Mansilla Some Ionospheric Storm Effects at high Latitudes

Oral

12:20–12:35 Wojciech Miloch An integrated study of the ionospheric plasma turbulence by sounding rockets, satellites, and numerical simulations, within the 4D–Space project.

Oral

12:35–12:50 Enoch Elemo Ionospheric variability around the time of the largest earthquake in the Africa in the 20th century

Oral

Thursday Sep 11, 2014
Session 5a: Space Weather and Space Climate

08:30–08:50 Blanca Mendoza The role of the Sun in climate change: results of the 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental panel for Climate Change (IPCC)

Invited

08:50–09:10 Brigitte Schmieder Extreme Geoeffective events and their Solar Sources

Invited

09:10–09:25 Sergio Dasso The role of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections in Space Weather

Oral

09:25–09:40 Rashmi Rawat Characteristics of solar energetic particle events during rising and near-maximum phases of solar cycle 24

Oral

09:40–09:55 Lela Taliashvili Long-Term Evolution of Filaments Associated with Emerging New Magnetic Flux

Oral

09:55–10:10 J. Americo Gonzalez Esparza Space Weather Service in Mexico

Oral

10:10–10:25 Marta Maria Zossi de Artigas Energetic particles precipitation: effects over the Southern Hemisphere Stratosphere

Oral

Thursday Sep 11, 2014
Session 5b: Space Weather and Space Climate

11:00–11:20 Joerg Buechner Models and numerical of Solar eruptions

Invited

11:20–11:35 Reinaldo Rosa Visual Analytics for Integrated Data Analysis In Space Science

Oral

11:35–11:50 Román Pérez Enríquez Space weather and the ionosphere over Mexico

Oral

11:50–12:05 Julio Cesar Gianibelli The Synergistic Program of Geomagnetism And Aeronomy

Oral

12:05–12:20 Walter Robert Guevara Day Implementing System Peruvian Space Weather – SICEP

Oral

Thursday Sep 11, 2014
Session 5c: Space Weather and Space Climate

14:00–14:20 Grzegorz Kowal Magnetic Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection

Invited

14:20–14:35 José Itshisuka Astronomical Facilities of Geophysical Institute of Peru

Oral

14:35–14:50 Luciá Villanueva Lat/Long Morphology of March 13, 1989 Geomagnetic Storm, impact on HF Radio

Oral

14:50–15:05 Dennis Cazar Ramírez Implementing a WCD detector system in Ecuador as part of the LAGO Project

Oral

15:05–15:20 Ramon Caraballo Geomagnetically Induced Currents at mid Latitudes: The Uruguayan Power Grid Case Study

Oral

Friday Sep 12, 2014
Session 6: Plasma Physics of Solar System, Planets and Exoplanets

08:30–08:50 Rosaly Lopes Io’s Volcanic Activity and the Jupiter System

Invited

08:50–09:10 Xochitl Blanco Cano Waves upstream of collisionless shocks in the heliosphere.

Invited

09:10–09:25 Juan Alejandro Valdivia Ion cyclotron waves and thermal fluctuations

Oral

09:25–09:40 Adolfo F. Vinas The role of higher-order modes on the electromagnetic whistler-cyclotron wave fluctuations in the solar wind

Oral

09:40–09:55 Pablo S. Moya Whistler-cyclotron wave fluctuations as a proxy to identify thermal and non-thermal electron distributions in the solar wind

Oral

09:55–10:10 María Guadalupe Cordero Tercero Study of the dynamics of meteoroids through the Earth's atmosphere and retrieval of meteorites.

Oral

10:10–10:25 Daniel Gómez Magnetic reconnection including Hall and electron inertia effects

Oral

10:25–10:40 Carlos F. Vazquez Mechanical design of a mount for observing meteors

Oral

Friday Sep 12, 2014
Session 7: Nonlinear Processes in Space Geophysics

11:00–11:20 Marina Stepanova Turbulence in the magnetosphere of the Earth and its relevance for magnetospheric dynamics

Invited

11:20–11:40 Erico Luiz Rempel Detection of Lagrangian coherent structures in solar flows

Invited

11:40–12:00 Vera Jatenco Pereira Damping of Alfven waves as a mechanism to decrease the dead zone size limits in proto-stellar accretion disks

Invited

12:00–12:15 Joseph Borovsky The Solar Wind Driving of the Magnetosphere: Creating a Stock Market of Earth Measurements

Oral

12:15–12:30 Joerg Buechner Nonlinear kinetic instabilities of current sheets

Oral



Look at LECTURES

LECTURES

 1. Sun in the Universe Jose Valdes-Galicia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico

 2. Plasma Physics Abraham Chian, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil

 3. Magnetohydrodynamics Daniel Gomez, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

 4. Numerical Simulation in Space Plasmas
Joerg Buechner, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany

 5. Solar Interior Phil Scherrer, Stanford University, USA

 6. Solar Dynamo Mark Miesch, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, USA

 7. Solar Atmosphere Mark Miesch, High Altitude Observatory, NCAR, USA

 8. Solar Wind Adolfo Vinas, NASA/GSFC, USA

 9. Sun and Climate Sami Solanki, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany

10. Solar Eruptions Nat Gopalswamy, NASA/GSFC, USA

11. Solar Energetic Particles, Radio Imaging - Part 1 - Part 2
Dalmiro Maia, University of Porto, Portugal

12. Nonlinear Plasma Physics Juan Valdivia, Universidad de Chile, Chile

13. Magnetospheric Physics Nikolai Ostgaard, University of Bergen, Norway

14. Plasmas of the magnetosphere Joe Borovsky, Space Science Institute, USA

15. Magnetosphere-solar wind interaction Joe Borovsky, Space Science Institute, USA

16. Atmospheric Physics John Meriwether, Clemson University, USA

17. Ionospheric Physics Cesar Valladares, Boston College, USA

18. Equatorial Aeronomy David Hysell, Cornell University, USA

19. Space Weather Christine Amory-Mazaudier, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), France

20. Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Akimasa Yoshikawa, Kyushu University, Japan

21. Magnetic reconnection and Space weather - Part 1 - Part 2
Cesar La Hoz, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

22. Global Warming John Meriwether, Clemson University, USA


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